The Listings: May 18 - May 24; SAM FULLER

By DAVE KEHR

Published: May 18, 2007

This retrospective devoted to the work of the tabloid reporter and crime novelist turned director should really be titled ''Sam Fuller!'' to reflect both his fondness for appending exclamation points to his titles (''Fixed Bayonets!,'' ''Verboten!'') and his filmmaking, which is so loaded with huge close-ups and percussive editing that Jean-Luc Godard once called it ''cin?ist.'' This program at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens features most of Fuller's major films in hard-to-find 35-millimeter archival prints. The selection for this weekend includes the 1951 ''Bayonets!,'' about a weak-willed officer (Richard Basehart) caught up in combat operations in Korea; ''Park Row'' (1952), his preposterously action-packed tribute to the early days of New York newspapering; and his two color and CinemaScope films for Fox: the cold-war submarine drama ''Hell and High Water'' (1954), with Richard Widmark as a former naval officer out to stop a Communist Chinese plot, and ''House of Bamboo'' (1955), starring Robert Ryan, as an Army veteran using his leadership skills to establish a crime ring in Tokyo, and Robert Stack (above, with Shirley Yamaguchi). (Through June 10, Museum of the Moving Image, 35th Avenue at 36th Street, Astoria, Queens, 718-784-0077, movingimage.us; $10.) DAVE KEHR